DevOps Specialist

Recruiter:

MECS Africa

Job Ref:

JHB008850/LB

Date posted:

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable

SUMMARY:

My client is seeking a DevOps Specialist to maintain and support the DevOps Ecosystem which includes tools that support and provide visibility and traceability of the Application Lifecycle. This individual will need to manage capabilities mainly used by Java based applications and troubleshoot problems within the Devops pipeline.

POSITION INFO:

Education and experience:

BCom or BSc in Information Systems or Computer Science or equivalent 3-year IT qualification
4+ years’ work experience in a Software Development role using Agile and DevOps practices
2+ years’ experience working with Linux (Redhat)
1-year experience working with Kubernetes, Docker and Ansible/cfengine
Experience working with test automation, networking, servers and databases
Understanding of the Maven Lifecycle, NPM and Gradle) and system administrator
Experience with Release automation, system administration, system configuration, and system debugging
Experience using scripting languages, configuration management tools, and command execution frameworks
Experience working with DevOps tools including Atlassian Stack (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence and Bamboo), Dynatrace, Ansible, Redhat, Nexus Repo and IQ, Jenkins, Maven, python, Kubernetes, Docker)
Exposure to both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

The DevOps Specialist (Intermediate) is also required to design, implement and maintain the orchestration platform (Ansible or CFengine, docker and kubernetes) to orchestrate Infrastructure and Application Provisioning and scaling. The major function and core of the role is to eliminate wastage from manual procedures by improving efficiency through automation.

Responsibilities:
Ongoing Maintenance of DevOps as a Service:

Maintain the Pipeline Configuration, integration and deployment tools as well as its underlying infrastructure

User Support, Collaboration and Troubleshooting:

Provide support or collaborate with development teams specifically around customized requirements. Provide ongoing support on Continuous integration, Continuous Delivery related issues/queries

Design and Develop:

Designing and developing the DevOps pipeline and software stack as well as develop the scripts required for automation (Python, YML, Java)

Authoring of DevOps Knowledge base, User Manuals, Standards and guidelines:

Responsible for maintaining and adding to the DevOps Knowledge base containing guidelines, best practices and operational policies primarily for Developers, Architects and Business Analysts
Drive adoption and uniformity of DevOps in Organisation

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